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In Louder than Words Jenny McCarthy faces many obstacles with her son Evan having autism. Her son was diagnosed with autism when he was two years old ever since Jenny has overcame many obstacles on her journey curing him. She faces many obstacles trying to beat time as she calls it "pulling him out of the time window."

In the beginning Jenny remained strong when she noticed something was wrong with Evan. He began seizing repeatedly and the doctors couldn't give her answers. There are are a number of problems she faced but she was persistent with calling the doctors to get answers and going to friends and family for help and researching all she could, she never stopped trying. She noticed Evan excreting yeast so she put him on a special diet to help him. To removes Evans
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She put Evan on a clean and organic diet she says "It worked for me to feed Evan food that is without additives, preservatives, or dyes." She also took gluten and casein out of Evans diet. She would also talk to other moms who's children had autism to see other methods they had tried. She contacted a special autism doctor known as a DAN doctor. She got help and educated herself to pull Evan out of the time gap "window". She was losing nights of sleep watching Evan scared something would go wrong while she was asleep so she bought a $5,000 machine to monitor his heart while she was asleep. She gave him mercury free omega 3 fish oil and B12 shots that helped majorly with Evans speech. Anything she could do to help her son was done. Evan was put into ABA therapy, she contacted the Center for Autism and Related Disorders. She had many test done on Evan including academic, social/emotional, IQ, and other psychological test. She also had medical test done, including: an MRI on his brain; a twenty four hour EEG to check for seizures; and blood test for rare genetic disorders. She brought Evan to an audiologist for a complete hearing evaluation because

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